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Wreck on Fayetteville detours traffic

ASHEBORO — Traffic in the 1500 block of North Fayetteville Street in Asheboro was detoured for about two hours on Tuesday morning after a passenger car struck a flat-bed loaded with slabs of granite.

The truck driver, Luis Eduardo Palmino-Moreno, 34, of Forest Brook Circle, Asheboro, was transported to Randolph Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries received in the accident.

Asheboro Patrol Officer Ronald Creason said the truck was struck nearly head-on when the driver of a 1998 Chevrolet fell asleep and drifted across the center line. The collision with the truck forced the car back into its lane and sent it into a ditch. The truck turned on its side, which blocked Fayetteville Street. Several slabs of granite were broken, but stayed on the truck.

Creason said City Towing was able to set the truck upright with two big wreckers.

Damages had not been estimated to either vehicle.

Creason said there was a small fuel leak that was contained by the fire department and NC DOT came to the scene to set up a detour and direct traffic.

More information will be available, including possible charges and identification of the other driver, when the investigation is complete.